California Girl gets PIERCED

So I finally did it..After standing around for about 20 minutes and
trying to figure out if i'd get in trouble at work for a tongue ring I
decided to do it..I got it done on a Thursday and I wanted to be able
to have the weekend to heal it...The piercing guy made me swish with
this yellow mouth wash that taste like shit...then he had me go sit in
his chair and stick out my tongue and he dried it out with paper
towels. Thats when I almost had seccond thoughts and wanted to leave.
But my friend just had hers done and I couldnt let her get it done and
brag to me about how cool it is and make me want one.Then he got a
blue Sharpie marker and dotted my tongue where he was going to
pierce. Gave me a mirror and asked me if that was Ok and he explained
how he had to do it at an angle because something about my tongue
webbing.

He took the clamps out of the bag and then I saw the NEEDLE...I was
surprised to see it was hallow...then he said....."stick your tongue
way
out"..I grabbed on to my friends hand and i squeezed it so
tight...and I felt him tighten the clamps up and it didn't hurt with
the clamps he held
them in place..then I saw him put some Vaseline on the needle...and
he
said take a deep breath and.....POW..I felt it...he pierced it....I
was drooling
all over....he had me hold a paper towel to catch all my
slobber...and I
felt him put the bar in (that part hurt the most out of the whole
piercing, it felt like a pinch) and the needle fell out on the paper
towel I was
holding. He screwed it in and i told him how much i hated him for
doing this to me and I sat there for a minute because I could not
believe what I had just did. My friend who had hers done right before
mine said I was a total baby about it....but it didn't hurt.

So we left $130 for two piercings.....kinda expensive but that's with
at
$15 tip......We walked down Santa Monica Blvd to look for our friends
and I showed everyone my tongue ring even strangers...freak....Then
we went to the store to get some mouth wash and yogurt for tomorrow.

Day 1:

Swollen and soar especially when I woke up...I'm eating Yogurt and a
juice from Jamba Juice... but its cool to show everyone. I swish with
mouthwash after I eat. 1200 mg of Ibuprofen...that's a lot!

Day 2:

Still swollen hurts when I wake up still......not that bad.....I cant
say "e" very well.....but I'll get use to it...I got some
Gly-Oxide...that stuff taste reallllllly bad and it makes your mouth
all
foamy...I hope it works...a little bottle cost me $7.50...more
Ibuprofen

Day 5:

A little puss is coming out of it, sick huh? I was able to eat some
French Fries and a shake..kinda worried about the puss...the piercer
said its OK....shrug..switched from Cepacol to Listerine...works
better....Went to San Diego to show my mom , her reaction "that's
really
stupid"....I cant put it between my teeth yet.....its too swollen

Day 9:

Yeah.....swelling is gone......I can talk normal now...I'm thinking
of
changing the barbell...under my tongue is a little soar still and a
tinny bit swollen...finally can put the top ball between my teeth

Day 16:

BAD DAY......I SWALLOWED THE WHOLE THING......I swallowed the whole
freaking
barbell.....I guess the ball on the bottom got loose and when I was
eating my taco bell burrito I swallowed it....luckily my friend had a
extra barbell.....so I was able to save the hole....but I'm
uncomforable with the bar in my stomach so I wrote BME to ask what to
do and they said its ok...So i'm just stressing over nothing.

TODAY:

Its been about a month.....I've changed the top ball to a clear one
that glows in the black light...I'm going to get a smaller barbell
this one is way too long. I'm so glad I got this done. I dunno if my
barbell ever came out....My dentist said my tongue looks healthy...he
said he's seen pictures in his medical journal of people who have
piercings and got so infected they lost 1/2 their tongue or they hit
an artrey and almost beld to death...but i've never heard of that
before....He didnt make me take the bar out for x-rays either, I was
surprised and it didnt show up in the x-ray pictures either. But the
dentist did reccomend Gly-oxide and Listerene for after care and he
said. Well thats my story and I'm sticking to it...I'm thinking of
getting my nipple pierced next but I'm not sure yet....have to read up
about it....bye!

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